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"I've read the messages and seen the comments: \"KOCO, you blew it today!\" \"Total bust.\". I can understand your feelings on today's storm.The image above shows the snow totals from today's winter storm. About 2 inches for Oklahoma City and much more as you head just south of the metro. By looking out your front door, you're saying to yourself, \"That's it?\"I get it, and I feel your pain. Many of you wanted bigger snow totals.However, remember our original forecast? We said 3 to 6 inches with isolated areas near 8. It seems whenever we post the potential snowfall accumulations graphic, we're trained to want to just focus on one number -- the BIG number.Three to six inches (with an isolated 8), to us, means 6 inches but hopefully 8 inches. We seem to want to ignore the low end number -- the 3.I'm with you on this one. I thought it had the potential to be more, but I also knew it could be less. Last night during the newscast, the storm started to jog just a tad to the south. That move to the south by 50 miles was the difference between 2 to 4 inches and 2 inches or less.So, was this a bust? I guess a forecast bust is seasonal these days. If we call for 3 to 6 inches and we get 7, then no one screams foul.If we get only 2, then everybody says you're wrong. In the summer, if we call for an inch of rain, and we get nine-tenths of an inch of rain, then is that a bust? (That's the snow/liquid equivalent we missed by today, 1/10 of 1 inch.)If we say the high today is suppose to be 99 degrees and we hit 100, is that a bust? Or if winds are suppose to max out at 40 mph, but we reach 45 mph, that is that a bust?So, the use of \"bust\" and \"wrong forecast\" is certainly not black and white.\u00A0 It's a shade of gray. Do I wish we had more snow? Of course I do!Is forecasting in Oklahoma difficult? You betcha! Would I call this forecast a total bust? Nope -- and neither should you. Merry Christmas!Footer Weather"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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